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Sharing Ideas and Failing Up
If I had to identify one thing I do well in the classroom, it’s this: I create an environment where it’s the norm to take risks, fail, and explore half-baked ideas. My guess is that I model all three of these things. I fail up pretty much all the time,…
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Lumio
My wife (and daughter) gifted me a Lumio last week. I love it. It’s beautiful and fun. It sits on my desk next to my laptop and I find myself reaching for it several times a day. Each time I open it up, I pay attention to different details: the…
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IASDR 2017
Some additional good news to report. I submitted an abstract for a short paper to the upcoming IASDR conference in Cincinnati about some early-stage research that I’m working on with Erik Stolterman, and the abstract has been accepted! So now we’re writing the short paper and creating a poster to…
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Conferences
I look forward to the day when more conferences in my fields of interest offer alternative forms of presentation. I recently received an email from the IASDR conference, which will be held later this year in Cincinnati. Part of the email states that: “To allow all world citizens to participate in…
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Fear
When I think of the charge to write what I’m afraid of, these are two things I fear: (1) failing to pass a plateau and (2) mistrusting of my own past experience. I have passed plateaus before, so why do I disbelieve that I can/will do it again? I started…
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On the Amazon Echo
Note: This is an old post that I guess I never published. Hence the 2016 Labor Day reference. Over labor day weekend (2016) I had some trouble with Alexa. But that’s all I know. I don’t know anything about the cause or anything about possible solutions. Here’s what happened.…
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The Capacity for Shock
One of the first things I read following the 2016 election was an article called Autocracy: Rules for Survival. It’s a great, short read. And it introduced me to Masha Gessen’s terrific writing. I especially like her piece on Arguing the Truth. One of the rules for survival has to do with…
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DRS 2016: Future-focused Thinking
I’m really looking forward to traveling to Brighton at the end of June to attend the Design Research Society conference. It’s the 50th anniversary conference and it looks like its going to be great! I’ll be presenting a paper that is a collaborative effort with Laureline Chiapello. I mentioned this…
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curiosity and diverse interests
One of the challenges that I find myself coming up against every now and again has to do with which interests to pursue and which to abandon. Looking up at the whiteboard near my desk I see the following list of papers that are in various stages of completion: quals scientific…
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